Abstract
ABSTRACTThe article focuses on the experience of two working-class women at the hands of the Metropolitan Police in the late 1880s and highlights the extent to which certain policemen were high-handed in their treatment of the two women, dishonest in the evidence they gave and yet remained supported by senior police figures despite magisterial, parliamentary and press condemnation. The evidence of dislike and distrust of the police adds weight to the argument that the notion of policing by consent was more middle-class myth than working-class reality.
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